Fair Elections Utah
Working to improve, but not gut, our neighborhood election caucus system.
The Caucus System in Utah is the best way to make sure a grass roots process can work over large amounts of money. It is the only way someone with $100,000 can go against someone with $2,000,000 in election funds. We had a system that did NOT favor the incumbent, wealthy or famous. This was a good thing. SB 54 made things bad. The New Count My Vote is worse.

Thursday, September 28, 2017

Count My Vote or Blank Check Vote

So the Incumbent protection for the Utah Legislature and Governor is in the Count My Vote?

Currently
you can at least watch what your legislator does during the session and
if you don't like it, you can either run or help someone run against
them by filing after the session ends. (March 1st, Line number 321).

This takes away part of the
accountability of these elected officials.

Most of the bills will pass after the new proposed filing
deadline and so it would be two years until you have a chance to hold
your State Representative accountable or perhaps four years for your
State Senator or Governor depending on their end of term.

So much for accountability to the people. Is this initiative is written to protect incumbents?

IF they CAN constitutionally combine an initiative and a referendum of
advance legislation, which the constitution has as separate powers and
the state law has different requirements for, the state constitution is
very clear a referendum can not repeal bills passed by a 2/3 vote of
both legislative houses. This is written to include repeal of those,
even before they exist, violating the part of the State Constitution
they are using to create CMV2.

Other major problems?

While it will cost less to get on the primary ballot under CMV2, it will cost a lot more to actually run and win elections making lobbyists and corporations, or the wealthy and famous even more powerful in elections.

There are no geographical requirements for signatures within a district or state so the potential of fly over counties and cities and area becomes much worse.What should Count My Vote 2 actually change?

IF they really want to change elections, they should get rid of straight
party voting as people can now get on the general election ballot as an
unaffiliated candidate with signatures bypassing the political parties,
and have been able to for many years. They just have a harder time
wining with straight party voting. CMV2 does nothing to help
unaffiliated voters. That would.

The next thing they should look at is Ranked Choice Voting and not
the expensive run off primaries that are part of CMV2, that have poor
voter turnout and cost millions each election.

Who to donate to

Fair Elections Utah is a dba. Any minor cost is being paid out of pocket. It is not a PIC and doesn't accept donations.
Those that want to donate should find a Utah Political Issues Committee (PIC) to donate to.